Come January, as Texas lawmakers begin work to pass bills and tackle the yawning budget gap, they will go up against a simple but implacable barrier: time.
But if the film has an extraordinary presence, it is also — perhaps mainly — about transience and impermanence: Bergman sets key scenes at dawn and dusk, suggesting the implacable passage of time and subtly imposing his characteristic mood of foreboding and loss.
If there is a precedent in literature for such a thrilling, disorienting leap across time coupled with the offhand revelation of a central character's demise, evocative of the implacable march of time and mortality—I'm not aware of it.
"Because now, faced with his unexpected death, the poetic themes of José Emilio, the sorrow, the melancholy, the lack of hope, the grief, the implacable passage of time, all acquire a new dimension, the dimension of a prophecy fulfilled".
This, for all the excellence, is an emerging Germany side rather than the implacable sort of times gone by and England responded simply.
"The tyrant of the Philharmonic," ran the headline on a newspaper essay by the Los Angeles Times's implacable Martin Bernheimer.
We sense the woman's former beauty beneath the effects of time and age, her implacable will and terror of mortality.
But the relationship steadily deteriorated across the years until, like some impossible marriage, it degenerated into implacable hostility, still unresolved at the time of Taylor's death in 1990.
Both books are set in 1982, a grim time of food shortages and implacable bureaucracy.
Like Iraq, the West may have to revisit Afghanistan as well, this time facing an enemy more implacable and savage than the Taliban ever were.
